Subject Re: exe problem From Akshat Kapoor <akshat.kapoor@kapoorsons.in> Date Tue, 6 Oct 2020 12:31:41 +0530 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 06.10.2020 02:58, Charlie wrote: > Hi Mervyn... > > There is one other program that has the orderby clause and has the same or similar error.  This works fine on my other computers.  There is something going on here.  Nothing that I have done as I haven't coded on this computer yet. > > I think the tempworkfile came from something you helped me with.  The code is below.  The last line is the one that triggers the error. > > Is there something in dbase that tells the program where to hold temp files? > > cFileIn ='c:\golfcb\info\users.csv' > cFileOut = 'tempworkfile.txt' > fIn = new file() > fIn.open(cFileIn) > fOut = new file() > fOut.create(cFileOut) > Good Afternoon Charlie, Please try using the following command set directory to c:\golfcb\info or wherever your dbf files are located. Somehow the directory has been changed to c:\windows.... a reserved directory. Try using msgbosx(set('directory')) to know what is the current directory. Regards Akshat